FrankenLab Experiment #5

[Simon Barden]

Needs more bolt.

[FrankenWashie]

Needs more bolt.

ROFL!! Some of your best work SB.

[FrankenWashie]

I don’t much care what the wood is, pine, wenge, eurobeech, kauri you name it I’d rather sweat through sanding sawing chiselling or routing stupidly hard or splinter prone woods than work with plastics.

This all stems from realising that the Realparts LH Strat pickguard I bought would not fit properly to the screw pattern on my ebay’d LH Strat body.
No probs says Igor, let’s just get a blank in and shape a custom one, using the Realparts version as a template for the PUP and neck slots and make it suit our screw pattern.

i really need to stop listening to Igor.

i will photographically document my frustrating end result of this fiddly, infuriating process when I can stand to look at it again. I left it on the bench in disgust last evening rather than fight with it some more.

Please excuse the venting, I’ve been stewing on it since last night. Next time I’ll just send a drawing and a spec to Pabs and save myself the swearing.

[Simon Barden]

Pabs must have gone through that same swearing a lot process.

[Simon Barden]

He's probably down to only swearing every other sentence by now.

[FrankenWashie]

The Realparts (The Good)


The attempted template (The Bad)



The result (The very ugly)



If nothing else it reinforces to me that while I might think I can do everything, sometimes it’s just a lot less painful to have others do it.


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[FrankenWashie]

The Realparts (The Good)


The attempted template (The Bad)



The result (The very ugly)



If nothing else it reinforces to me that while I might think I can do everything, sometimes it’s just a lot less painful to have others do it.


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So we have all the requisite holes, bar the five way switch slot. My existing SD AL2 pick up fits through all the pup slots and the holes line up. Most importantly the pup adjuster holes line up.

I’ve got to get the edge chamfer sorted yet, and I’ve figured out a way to do that so we’ll test that tomorrow before starting on the scratch plate. If I can get that done, then we’ll matte it off and see if we can live with it.



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[wazkelly]

Makes a right proper mess when using power tools to shape the stuff.

[FrankenWashie]

Makes a right proper mess when using power tools to shape the stuff.

Oh F yes. Little shavings everywhere


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[wazkelly]

With lots of static electricity just to add to the fun factor.